MYCOLOGICAL NOTES C. G. LLOYD 
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I am glad to have specimens for the question arose just the other 
day in working with the rare Dacryomitra lutea of Tasmania as to 
whether it is the same or not. They are very close but Calocera 
guepinoides has a very short stem and Dacryomitra lutea has a stem 
as long as the head. As a matter of relationship Calocera guepin¬ 
oides is closer to Dacryomitra lutea than to any Calocera, but 
classification must in many cases be artificial. Dried it does not 
seem to have a stem, but soaked a short stem is seen, hence it would 
become Dacryomitra guepinoides for some future McGinty. Berkeley 
gave the plant a good name for it suggests small specimens of 
Guepinia spathulata so closely that I think one not well familiar 
with both plants would consider them the same. But a section shows 
an amphigenous hymenium, hence not a Guepinia. The dried plant is 
dark, but soaked (and when growing) is yellow, Berkeley ''described" 
it as reddish brown, which makes it quite evident that he did not 
soak his tremellaceous plants. It is needless to add the basidia 
are furcate and spores (hyaline ) cylindrical 5 X 10 slightly curved 
for all this group of plants have about the same spores and basidia. 
It is one group where the anatomical expert has not much advantage, 
and he who exploits at length these features of tremellaceous plants 
is only exhibiting pedanticism. 
HYPOXYLON ROSTRATUM PROM L. RODWAY, TASMANIA, (Pig. 1956 ).- 
Sessile, cushion-shape, 1 l/2 cm.broad, 6-8 mm. thick, black, no 
pellicle or remains of a conidial layer on the ripe plant. Surface 
rostrate with large, protruding beaks, (Pig. 1957 enlarged) concave 
at the apices. There are, of course, the "ostioles", but I know 
none so large in any other species although there is a suggestion 
in Hypoxylon maleolum. Stroma black, all carboneus. Perithecia 
unusually large, globose, 2-3 mm. located peripherally and corre¬ 
sponding in number to the beaks. Spores 6-7 X 8, subglobose, black. 
No evidence of the asci remain in the ripe plant 
Mr. Rodway sends this to me as - "This was determined by 
Massee as Hypoxylum annulatum but I was never satisfied." Mr, Rod¬ 
way had good grounds for dissatisfaction, Hypoxylon annulatum was 
named from the United States but neither it nor any other of our 
species (or in Europe ) has any suggestion of Hypoxylon rostratum. 
The publication of this illustrates my views on such cases-. I have 
a general knowledge of the Hypoxylons of Europe and the United State 
and am sure it is none of these I have photographed and collated 
most of the figures that have been given of the foreign Hypoxylons 
- and I never saw it, and if any one should publish such an exception¬ 
al plant and not give a figure of it he would be very remiss in his 
obligations, to put it mildly. I have looked over the "descriptions 
of foreign species and find none that would apply to it, though that 
of course is not conclusive as not one species out of ten could be 
determined correctly from the publication, I would not call it a 
"new species" for I do not know. It may be an old one. But I feel 
that Mr. Rodway has sent it to me for a name and as I do not know 
it if jit has been named, I am justified in giving it a name for our 
museum and for Mr. Rodway, provided I illustrate it in such a 
characteristic nammer that it will be recognized if it is ever 
found, named and filed away in some museum. 
